As someone who has been reading this blog since April of 2006, my vote as a reader would be for Powayseller to create her own blog.
The usefullness of this blog is first of all Rich’s articles. In addition, I used to like the user forums for the purpose of seeing what other people in the southern california real estate community were thinking about what’s happening, their reactions and thoughts.
The user forum is no longer useful for this purpose because the user forums have become basically a Powayseller blog that has hitched it’s wagon to Rich’s content.
I disagree with those who suggest that the most appropriate solution is to just wade past Powayseller’s posts or to start more of our own threads.
One reason is a question of quality versus quantity. It wouldn’t help with the quality or diversity of opinions to just have others posting as frequently, we would just have to wade through more posts that don’t bring new opinions on new topics. The likely result would not truly be diversity of topic or opinion, just more quantity.
Another reason is that it just makes more sense, if Powayseller has so much to say, she should have a blog that people who want to hear it can go to, rather than filling up a community dialogue with her opinions.
I think that the best solution for everyone would be for Powayseller to have her own blog. That way those who want to read her content can, and those of us who would like to see a more balanced participation of those in the community would have active forum topics that have a tone of balance and diversity of opinion.
